Delete spam by IP address in Mail.app

Here's an easy method to remove email based on the IP address of the sender in Mail.app.

Every time I receive a spam email I add its email address to a list of rules in Mail to move it directly to trash. The length of this list has grown over time and I now have more than one ever-growing list. After a while I noticed that, although the sender addresses were different, the IP address in a lot of cases stayed the same. I looked at the rules in the Mail prefs, but there is no obvious rule for filtering by IP address.

However, it can be achieved using the rules, with a little tweak.

Firstly, it might be a good idea to create a new Mailbox and call it something like 'Review Spam.'

Next, identify the sender's IP address from the spam messages. If you don't know how to do this, here's a rough guide:

Select a spam message and select View » Message » Long Headers -- the header section in the message will expand. In the h ...

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